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Sharing – 6 Things People Actually Need To Improve Their Mental Health Right Now
It’s all well and good to suggest someone take a mental health day, or maybe a spa day to relax and recharge. No one has a solution for doing that when you don’t get paid sick leave, or struggle to find childcare. It’s easy to suggest time in nature to people who live in a high-rise Section 8 building barely scraping by, or suggest that kids should get help when budgets for in-school mental health programs are being cut.
Suggesting it isn’t going to make it possible. We have a massive problem with access to any kind of mental health care. If we don’t figure that out, the rest of this doesn’t make any sense.
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
New Research Shows Screen Time Is Not Directly Increasing Depression or Anxiety in Teenagers Caring for a Loved One with a Mental Disorder ‘Behind every man is a childhood’ – male survivor of sexual abuse speaks out The Importance of Community and Mental Health With kids coming home for Thanksgiving, parents need to know the…
Pope Meets with Irish Bishops
In addition to the op-ed piece in The Heights today, The Pope also met with Irish bishops following the publication of the archdiocese report into the child abuse scandal in Ireland. As usual for a BBC report the collected stories are in the right-hand column, and you can view the story here. – CBG
Link – 7 facts about child sexual abuse that leave me stunned.
“1. In 2007, 1 in 2 children in India, both boys and girls, were victims of sexual abuse. 2. Almost 35% of all children in Africa are sexually abused or raped. 3. A child is raped about every three minutes in South Africa. 4. In the United States, a child is raped about every two…
Extradited Paedophile ex-Priest gets 21 years
A former priest who abused boys over a 24-year period has been caged for 21 years, or one year for each guilty conviction. Richard Robinson, now 73, had emigrated to California during the 1980s and needed to be extradited to face the charges. However the change in tide over Catholic child abuse clearly assisted the…
